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PARTS 2010 - 2011
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The academic year took a fresh start on the first of September. Director Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and deputy director Theo Van Rompay welcomed the students, teachers, staff members and Rosas staff, everybody introduced oneself to the others and Salva Sanchis presented a short improvisation.
40 new Training Cycle students (17 girls and 23 boys) are Generation X.
In the Research Cycle 20 young dancers (7 girls and 13 boys) deepen and broaden their study in contemporary dance. Two of them are new PARTS students.
The community of students is as usual a brightly-coloured reflection of the world population and a third generation with a majority of boys, a feat unmatched in any other dance school.
   
GENERATION IX, first year Research Cycle
Polina AKHMETZYANOVA (Russia), Eleanor CAMPBELL (Australia), Louis COMBEAUD (France), José Paulo DOS SANTOS (Brasil), Camille DURIF BONIS (France), Nestor GARCIA DIAZ (Spain), Guillaume GUILHERME (Switzerland), Pavle HEIDLER (Croatia), Youness KHOUKHOU (Morocco), Vedis KJARTANSDOTTIR (Iceland), Melkorka Sigridur MAGNUSDOTTIR (Iceland), Radouan MRIZIGA (Morocco), Renan MARTINS DE OLIVEIRA (Brazil), Alma PALACIOS (France), Simon PORTIGAL (Canada), Victor PEREZ ARMERO (Spain), Siet RAEYMAEKERS (Belgium), Bara SIGFUSDOTTIR (Iceland), Michiel VANDEVELDE (Belgium) and Cyriaque VILLEMAUX (France).
GENERATION X, first year Training Cycle
Sven BAHAT (Croatia), Livia BALAZOVA (Slovakia), Balazs BUSA (Hungary), Jeanne COLIN (France), Dagmar DACHAUER (Austria), Peter DE VUYST (Belgium), Andras DERI (Hungary), Gwenola DESURMONT (France), Alexandra DOLGOVA (Russia), Erik ERIKSSON (Sweden), Bryana FRITZ (United States), Taha GHAURI (United Kingdom), Gudrun Yanne GHESQUIERE (Belgium), Inga HAKONARDOTTIR (Iceland), Nathan JARDIN (Belgium), Maïté JEANNOLIN (France), Marcia Man Sze LIU (Hong Kong), Joao MARTINS (Portugal), Ben MC EWEN (United Kingdom), Ioannis MICHOS (Greece), Volodymyr MYKHATSKYI (Ukraine), Charles NGOMBENGOMBE (Zimbabwe), Rosa OMARSDOTTIR (Iceland), Benjamin POHLIG (Germany), Camille PRIEUX (France), Gieorgij PUCHALSKI (Poland), Jason RESPILIEUX (Belgium), Krisjanis SANTS (Latvia), Christoffer SCHIECHE (Sweden), Thorunn Edda SIGURJONSDOTTIR (Iceland), Heidi Charlotte SVEINSSON (Norway), Sara Leah TAN SIYIN (Singapore), Mohamed TOUKABRI (Tunisia), Roman VAN HOUTVEN (Belgium), Esse VANDERBRUGGEN (Belgium), Alexander VAN TOURNHOUT (Belgium), Thomas VANTUYCOM (Belgium), Kathryn VICKERS (United States), Clara VILLALBA (France), Michal WROBEL (Poland) |
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Looking back on the Graduation Tour 2010
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May - August 2010:
24 dancers and choreographers:
Anaïs, Anna, Anne, Anneleen, Aron, Cecilia, Daniel, Elisa, Fanny, Guo, Jonathan, Marco, Maria, Mikko, Nicholas, Noé, Peter, Petra, Stanislav, Salka, Stav,Steven, Thibault, Veli
11 people supporting them: technicians, tour manager, rehearsal directors, staff members
Elke, Ise, Jakub, Joris, Marta, Martine, Ondrej, Steven, Theo, Tom, Wannes
54 performances in 16 cities in 9 countries on 3 continents
Alkantara, Lisbon (PT), Archauz, Arhus (DK), Bimeras, Istanbul (TR), Concertgebouw, Bruges (BE), De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL), Hebbel am Ufer/ Tanz im August, Berlin (DE), Impulstanz, Vienna (AT), ITs festival, Amsterdam (NL), Kaaitheater, Brussels (BE), Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn (EE), 2ième Plateforme des Arts de la Scène/ Centre culturel français, Kinshasa (CG), Monty, Antwerp (BE), Mousonturm, Frankfurt-am-Main (DE), PACT Zollverein, Essen (DE), Stuk, Leuven (BE), Vooruit, Ghent (BE), Vrijstaat-O/Dansand, Ostend (BE)
23 choreographies
ad infinitum, Aron & Mikko thinking duet…, Being Together without any Voice, =Copying, RE:Drumming, ± Even but odd, I have to get ready to get ready, It’s not what but how…, Light as a feather, green as an apple, Little perceptions, Mind the gap, Montage for three, Not about everything, Paper plane, The desert of milestones, The kingdom of shades, The Man, The Time Lapse Opera, Time flies…, Trash Talk, Trio Lio Lei
  
The tour of 2010 was the largest ever in the history of PARTS. As the final episode of a 4-year training, the students showed their graduation works in professional theatres for large and usually very enthousiastic audiences. From the big stage of the Kaaitheater in Brussels to the tiny studio at Mousonturm in Frankfurt, from the ceremonial opening of the ITS festival in Amsterdam to the open-air stage on the beach of Ostend, sultry evenings in Istanbul and a passage through Kinshasa none of the participants will easily forget...
For everybody involved it was an important artistic, pedagogical and humn experience, which for many students opened first doors for their next steps into the 'real' world.
PARTS thanks all students and staff members for their commitment, and most of all the organisers for their belief in the work of a new generation of dancers and choreographers, and the artistic, organisational and financial risks they took to offer a stage to totally unknown artists.
  
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Graduation 2010
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On June 20, the school year was officially ended with the handing over of the PARTS Diplomas and Training Certificates.
- Generation VIII: 24 students received the PARTS diploma - 20 of them have completed the four-year journey, four others only the Research Cycle.
- Generation IX: 31 students received the Certificate of Training Cycle.
At the start of the study, Generation VIII counted 36 students and Generation IX counted 35 Students.
The Graduation Ceremony took place in the studios of PARTS. It was attended by 200 guests, including many parents, relatives and friends of the graduates. Almost all participants faced a (very) far journey back home. They came from, for example, Paris, Bordeaux, Barcelona, Bratislava, Stockholm, Helsinki, Reykjavik, Lisbon, Rome, Tel Aviv, and even Los Angeles, Calgary and Buenos Aires!
The ceremony was led by Theo Van Rompay, deputy director of PARTS.
The participants were addressed by Hugo De Greef, president of PARTS, and special guest Jan Goossens, director of KVS Brussels. He the students goodbye with a speech in which he called the young artists to look to the city and the world. His speech can be downloaded here.
For every graduating student of the Research cycle Steven de Belder, coordinator of the Research Cycle, read a short text, written by teachers and choreographers who have worked with the students.
  
The Training Certificates were presented by Mia Lawrence, coordinator of the Training Cycle.
The Diplomas were presented by Pascal Smet, Minister of Education of the Flemish Community and by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, director.
In her moving closing statement Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker gave eleven 'wise counsels' for the young artist. She finished her speech with a letter R.M. Rilke to a young artist.
After the ceremony, the guests were invited for a drink, a dinner and a party.
  
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PARTS receives the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale
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The Silver Lion was conceived as a new prize for young talent in the performing arts. The Biennale’s Golden Lion has since several years been awarded for lifelong artistic achievement. By contrast, the Silver Lion is intended as a recognition of the artists of the coming generations. Those who qualify for this new prize are promising artists from dance, theatre and music and institutions that distinguish themselves in the training of this young talent.
A Quote from the jury report: “Instituted quite recently (1995), P.A.R.T.S. acquired immediate recognition throughout Europe as a centre of pedagogical innovation, with a complete and intensive programme of studies in which the most advanced techniques of contemporary dance dialogue with other artistic disciplines, in particular with theatre and music. A laboratory of movement which focuses not only on the development of the dancer’s skills, but on his search for artistic identity as well.”
The prize was awarded on June 5 in the Teatro Piccolo in Venice.
Deputy director Theo Van Rompay and Research Cycle coordinator Salva Sanchis represented PARTS. Graduating students Aron Blom and Mikko Hyvönen will perform their piece Aron & Mikko thinking duet. |
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Book publication: P.A.R.TS. - Documenting ten years of contemporary dance education
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posted 15/12/2007
In September 1995, the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S.) opened their doors in Brussels. It was the result of a dream shared by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (Rosas) and Bernard Foccroulle (De Munt/La Monnaie), a dream for an international school for contemporary dance that responded to the breakthroughs and challenges of the still-young contemporary dance scene in Belgium.
This book celebrates the 10th anniversary of PARTS. Teachers, students, former students and outsiders remember, recount and reflect on different aspects of the school: its mission, its program, its daily experience, its impact and its relation to the world. An extensive photo collection gives a view on students and teachers at work. The book finishes with an archive of facts and figures relating to 10 years of PARTS.
Edited by Steven De Belder and Theo Van Rompay
Published by PARTS
The book was published with the support of VGC (Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie), Nationale Loterij and the network Départs, which is supported by the European Commission (Programme Culture 2000).
The book can be bought in the following theatres: De Munt/ La Monnaie (Brussels), Buda Kunstencentrum (Kortrijk), Vooruit (Ghent), Monty (Antwerp), CCBe (Antwerp), deSingel (Antwerp), De Brakke Grond (Amsterdam).
And also in the following bookshops: De Reyghere (Bruges), Copyright (Ghent & Antwerp), Passa Porta (Brussels), International Theatre and film Bookshop (Amsterdam)
It is also available directly from PARTS: send an email to Martine Lange to order it.
Price: 20 euros
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Agenda 2010-2011
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Click on the date for more details.
October, 2, 3
Théâtre de la Cité internationale, Paris, FR
After P.A.R.T.S.
February 2011
PARTS studios, Brussels
Student Performances Winter 2011
June 2011
PARTS Studios, Brussels
Student Performances Summer 2011 |
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